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adjective satellite • making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe • used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots • highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious • tangled in knots or snarls | ||||||||
| 34% | 8 | Nickname for stubborn or stubborn-minded people | ||||||
noun • A California fish (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus), allied to the sculpin. | ||||||||
| 28% | 13 | A pattern in which the solution to a problem creates another problem, leading back to the original problem | ||||||
noun • one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first • an argument that assumes that which is to be proved | ||||||||
Stubborn As A Problem
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KNOTTY which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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KNOTTY
Updated: October 11, 2023
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